Pathetic Files: Vacuum Cleaner Bags

[plumtreeblossom]

Everything is about vacuum cleaner bags. No really. I haven't been able to focus on anything else but vacuum cleaner bags all morning. I need them, you see, because I neeeeed to vacuum. I spilled ground coffee on the kitchen rug. And have cats. And a baglesss vacuum cleaner.

Ever since I got the vacuum cleaner from cometsong two years ago, I've been too lazy/busy to hunt down replacement bags for the model, a Kenmore Magic Blue. Instead, whenever the not-designed-for-reuse bag was full, I'd empty it out manually and put the newly empty bag back in the machine. The bag was made of some cousin-of-Tyvek, so it stood up as well as could be expected for something doing far beyond it's intended job. It still worked even after it needed to be held together all over with gaffer's tape.

Until this week. It was full, it ripped into two dusty halves that no amount of gaff tape would reunite.

Goodness knows I never have time to go to Sears or anthing normal like that. Mister Interwebs was my only hope, and it's of note that I was jittery with stress, over vacuum cleaner bags. I needed a source for bag 51195 that offered speedy Priority Mail delivery. When I found one, angels sang.

Yes, okay. I could be posting about dining out or yummy sex or creative projects, but those all paled in my focus this morning, behind the mighty vacuum cleaner bags. They are coming, and it is good.

Comments

[eclecticavatar.livejournal.com]

The Singer store in Davis is also a vacuum cleaner store... ;) They might be of help!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I already ordered them online, to the tune of $21 including delivery. They had better be platinum, diamond-studded vacuum cleaner bags. :-)

[beowabbit]

All praise the mighty Intarweb!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Over the past 5 days I've made 6 Intarweb purchases. And in fact, I might do PeaPod for some of the Thanksgiving food. :-)

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

Hm. Not to burst your bubble or anything, but twenty one bucks for bags, unless you are buying like 10 bags, is too much. They shouldn't cost more than 3 bucks or so per bag, so a package with 3 should be about 10 bucks with tax at Sears. You can take the Green Line to the Lechemere stop and go to Sears for way less money and it doesn't even take that long (not to talk about having the bags *now* as opposed to some other day). You can smack me for making this comment later. ;-)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I know, I got ripped. The $21 was for 8 bags, and special 3-day delivery. Someday, I won't be so busy.